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What makes you trust Opera any more already? They're already quite capable of logging every domain you visit, via the fraud prevention mechanism (Enabled by default). Whether Opera are recording this I don't know, but you can probably be quite certain that Facebook will, if they acquire it.
At least they say that they don't log it. Google's Chrome does send and log every website you visit.
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> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?
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Opera has custom inline searches. I type in the address bar "eng cacophony" and I am being redirected here www.thefreedictionary.com/cacophony . "w Opera browser features" takes me to the wikipedia page. I can define how many custom keywords as I please. Again, long before Chrome existed.
I could do this in the year 2000.
I still don't see the value in it. It made sense when Google did it. Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had and placing an emphasis on JavaScript speed. This was critical for Google as a number of its apps make heavy use of it. I don't use Chrome anymore, I switched back to Firefox but its undeniable that it had a massive impact on the speed of browser development and probably t…
> introducing features no existing browsers had Please, elaborate. The only feature I know is exclusive to Chrome is full page translation (since they own Google Translate it makes sense). What else?
Re Opera Mini and them having no competition in proxying browsers: Nokia's S40 Browser actually does proxying these days. This was released as a beta in late 2010, and is now the default in all S40 phones. ( http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-browser-for-series-40-b... ) It's not a proper competitor of course, as one cannot install it to phones by other manufacturers, but it does still cover a pretty big chunk of t…
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Gecko will NEVER render on a feature phone. The Mozilla team has repeated this statement again and again.
A year ago feature phones were being released with 1GHz processors [1]. I wouldn't say never. [1] http://www.gsmarena.com/1ghz_s40based_nokia_c3015_pictures_s...
"Installable web apps". The author doesn't seem to be up to speed. Opera has announced widget support will be dropped, along with Unite applications. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/04/24/increased-fo... I guess this decision could be reversed if Facebook buys Opera.
Unite was awesome. The problem is hardly anyone used Opera. A company like Facebook could actually do something with it. Imagine the possibilities for apps and games if a big chunk of Facebook users had it.
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And single key shortcuts!
And vertical multi-column tabs! And good performance for 100+ tabs on single core CPU-s! And speed dial! And integrated email/RSS client! And trash can! And notes! And so many more. Then I might switch.
The rest I didn’t use/care, but I can recall there being an extension for every one of those things.
Not saying Firefox is better than Opera necessarily, it's just that Firefox is quite powerful as well.
I'm really baffled by all those people saying that they will stop using Opera if FB acquires them. I mean - okay, If they start modifying it to send your data to Facebook without way to opt-out - sure, do that. If they start showing ads in fastmail and reading your mails - sure, that's reasonable. But I really think that doing that the moment FB acquires Opera would be quite an overreaction.
I don't know. I'm quite worried that the whole technology space is turning into a big brand feud war arena. We are begining to see the subverting of unrelated products into business strategies. No, I don't want my browser/car/glasses/phone with any strings attached. What are we looking forward to a decade from now? iBank? FB insurence? G+ real state? I for one will make efforts to avoid those products like the plague…
Reinforces my belief that open standards and open source really, really matter when it comes to a free and open Internet.
I'll stop using Opera (currently my default browser) if facebook acquires it. Such is the level of trust I have over facebook.
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I'll use this page as reference for omnibox - http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... . Opera has custom inline searches. I type in the address bar "eng cacophony" and I am being redirected here www.thefreedictionary.com/cacophony . "w Opera browser features" takes me to the wikipedia page. I can define how many custom keywords as I please. Again, long before Chrome existed. I could do this in the…